Sela Ward Biography

Sela Ward full name Sela Ann Ward, is an American actress, author and producer. She was born on July 11, 1956 in Meridian, Mississippi to Annie Kate and Granberry Holland Ward, Jr. Ward is the eldest of four children with a sister, Jenna, and two brothers, Brock and Granberry Holland Ward III.

Ward attended the University of Alabama, where she was Homecoming Queen, a Crimson Tide cheerleader, and joined Chi Omega sorority. She double-majored in fine art and advertising. Ward began modeling to supplement her income while working in New York City as a storyboard artist for multimedia presentations. She was recruited by the Wilhelmina agency and was soon featured in television commercials promoting Maybelline cosmetics.

Sela Ward Age

She was born on July 11, 1956.

Sela Ward Husband

Ward married entrepreneur Howard Elliott Sherman on May 23, 1992. They have two children.

Sela Ward Children

Together with husband Howard Elliott Sherman, the couple has two children: Anabella Raye Sherman and Austin Ward Sherman.

Sela Ward Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.

Ward moved to California to pursue acting and landed her first film role in the 1983 Burt Reynolds vehicle The Man Who Loved Women. Her first regular role in a television drama series, as a socialite on Dennis Weaver’s short-lived CBS series, Emerald Point N.A.S., followed in the same year. Ward continued to land guest roles in both television and movies throughout the 1980s, most notably opposite Tom Hanks in 1986’s Nothing in Common. In 1991 she was cast as the bohemian alcoholic Teddy Reed on Sisters, for which she received her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She portrayed Helen Kimball, the wife of Dr. Richard Kimball (Harrison Ford), in The Fugitive, one of the top films of 1993. Ward won a CableACE Award for her portrayal of the late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.

Sela Ward Photo

Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She received her second Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for the leading role of Lily Manning in the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999–2002). Ward later had the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox medical drama House, and starred as Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI: NY (2010–2013)

She also played supporting roles in films, including The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985), Nothing in Common (1986), Hello Again (1987), The Fugitive (1993), My Fellow Americans (1996), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Guardian (2006), The Stepfather (2009), and Gone Girl (2014). In 2016, she played the President of the United States in the science fiction film Independence Day: Resurgence, and starred in the Epix political comedy Graves.

Sela Ward Movies and TV Shows

Sela Ward Movies

The Man Who Loved Women (1983)

Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985)

Nothing in Common (1986)

Hello Again (1987)

Steele Justice (1987)

The Haunting of Sarah Hardy (1989)

Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991)

Double Jeopardy (1992)

The Fugitive (1993)

My Fellow Americans (1996)

54 (1998)

Runaway Bride (1999)

The Badge (2002)

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

The Guardian (2006)

The Stepfather (2009)

Gone Girl (2014)

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Sela Ward TV Shows

2016–present – Graves

2010–13 – CSI: NY

2005–12 – House

2004 – Suburban Madness

2000 – Catch a Falling Star

1999–2002 – Once and Again

1999 – The New Batman Adventures

1997 – Frasier Kelly Easterbrook

1997 – Stories of Courage: Two Women

1995 – Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story

1991–96 – Sisters

1990 – Rainbow Drive

1987 – Night Court

1986 – Hotel

1986 – L.A. Law

1985 – I Had Three Wives

1983–84 – Emerald Point N.A.S.

Sela Ward House

Actress Sela Ward and her husband, venture capitalist Howard Sherman, sold their eight-acre Bel Air home for $39.995million to Jennifer Lopez.

The five-bedroom home features a 100-seat outdoor amphitheater, miniature golf course, man-made beach, massage room, 30-seat movie theater, an outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven and an infinity swimming pool.

Ward, 59, and Sherman bought the estate, which was originally built in the 1940s, in 2003 for $3.8million. They tore down much of the original structure and redeveloped the site using reclaimed wood from Mississippi and Louisiana in a nod to Ward’s southern roots.

In the extensive grounds there is a greenhouse off the kitchen that houses fruit trees, plus a one-bedroom guest cottage, vineyard, covered footbridge leading to a gazebo with an outdoor fire pit, and man-made pond.